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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Students from Tarzana, Orange County advance to National Spelling Bee quarterfinals |
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The quarterfinals of the 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held Tuesday with a 13-year-old from Tarzana and two 13-year-olds from Orange County among the 74 remaining competitors from the original field of 207. The two Orange County spellers — Baominh Le and Sophia Lin — both graduated Thursday from The Pegasus School, a private, pre-kindergarten through eighth grade school in Huntington Beach that had 583 students in the just completed school year. James Swiger, the school’s middle school director, attributed both Baominh and Sophia’s spelling bee success to being avid readers.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/15/students-from-tarzana-orange-county-advance-to-national-spelling-bee-quarterfinals/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Edison trio honored with inaugural Christina Mauser scholarship |
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In her time at Edison High School, Christina Mauser was known as a standout athlete who put her team first. A scholarship has now been introduced in her name, keeping her legacy alive after she was one of the victims in the helicopter crash that killed nine people, including Kobe Bryant, in January of last year. Mauser was inducted into the Edison Hall of Fame for her junior and senior seasons of basketball. She was also the school’s athlete of the year as a senior, per Edison athletic director Rich Boyce.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2021-06-12/edison-trio-honored-with-inaugural-christina-mauser-scholarship |
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FRESNO BEE
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Students say Clovis Unified’s dress code is sexist. This student wants to change that |
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During her freshman year at Clovis High School, Annie Nguyen said she began to notice the district’s dress code seemed to target certain students more than others.
“At first, it just used to be something like an annoyance,” she said. “‘Oh, you got in trouble for wearing this or that?’ But then I started hearing something that didn’t really feel right. My friends told me they felt really ashamed. “It kind of snowballed to a point where I just couldn’t really take it anymore,” she said.
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article251956563.html#storylink=mainstage_lead |
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EDSOURCE
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California community colleges lose students to more expensive for-profit colleges |
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California’s community colleges face a reckoning over losing vulnerable students to more expensive for-profit colleges, where they often incur a disastrous amount of debt but exit with no degree. Black people, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders are increasingly choosing for-profits, either by enrollment or transfer, at much higher rates than those groups’ shares of the state population. They are enrolling despite abysmally low chances of graduating within six years, according to federal data. Nearly 9 out of 10 Black and Native American enrollees don’t earn a degree at for-profit colleges in that time.
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https://edsource.org/2021/california-community-colleges-must-address-why-students-are-opting-for-more-expensive-for-profit-schools/656436 |
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Legislature passes placeholder budget to buy time for a deal with Gov. Newsom |
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The Legislature passed a state budget Monday that is a placeholder to satisfy a June 15 constitutional deadline and enables lawmakers to keep getting paid. The Senate passed it 30-8 and the Assembly 57-15 after about an hour of discussion in each chamber.
The final budget will come sometime before July 1, when lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom settle their differences. Even then, it may take through the summer to complete action on several trailer bills that will detail how the appropriated funding will be spent.
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https://edsource.org/2021/legislature-passes-placeholder-budget-to-buy-time-for-a-deal-with-gov-newsom/656479 |
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California is 36th in nation in Education Week’s latest rankings in per-student spending |
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California ranked 36th in the nation in per-student spending in Education Week’s much quoted, though outdated, analysis of states’ education finances, which was released earlier this month. Adjusted for regional costs of labor, California spent $11,269 in 2017-18, which was $2,410 below the national average. Education Week relies on most recently available federal data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce, which run several years behind. Thus, it does not reflect this year’s record post-pandemic surge in state and federal revenue, which could propel the state’s ranking in a few years.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#california-is-36th-in-nation-in-education-week-8217-s-latest-rankings-in-per-student-spending |
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